Showing In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

Paperback. Pub Date: 2010 Pages: 352 Publisher: Algonquin Books It is November 25 1960 and the bodies of three Beautiful Convent-educated sisters have been found near their Wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. El Caribe. the official newspaper. reports their deaths as an accident. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Raphael Leonidas Trujillo's dictatorship. It doesn't have to. Everyone knows of Las Mariposas - The Butterflies. Now. three decades later. Julia Alvarez. also a daughter of the Dominican Republic and long haunted by these sisters. immerses us in a tangled and dangerous moment in Hispanic Caribbean history to tell their story in the only way it can truly be understood - through fiction. In this illiantly characterized no...